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Girth six cubic graphs have Petersen minors

Combinatorics 2014-05-06 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We prove that every 3-regular graph with no circuit of length less than six has a subgraph isomorphic to a subdivision of the Petersen graph.

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@article{arxiv.1405.0533,
  title  = {Girth six cubic graphs have Petersen minors},
  author = {Neil Robertson and Paul Seymour and Robin Thomas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.0533},
  year   = {2014}
}

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12 pages, 2 figures

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